On 15/08/2013 4:44 AM, Richard Newman wrote: > > There's been some talk over the past few months about using Sync 1.1 plus FxA > to achieve some of this. I support doing so, if we can do the following: > > * Build and deliver device management and service discovery/negotiation, such > that we can have one auth flag day, and have the next transition -- to better > storage/client/etc -- be managed by our service discovery/capability stuff. > We'll need this anyway, and this is point 5 in the last email. > > * From an engineering/product perspective, we must explicitly regard the Sync > 1.1 code as a dead-end (a hacky stopgap), just as it is right now, and don't > waste time fixing and extending it beyond life-support.
+1. We need to commit to building something better, and have a concrete plan for how we'll transition to it. > This has the two large caveats: that we absolutely need product buy-in for > both stages, and that Mark and Ryan are on board. Mark and I are both on record as being happy to ship this atop the Sync1.1 servers, so I guess we can't back out now :-) We'll need to do some non-trivial server-side work for durability purposes, but that can happen in parallel and transparently to the client. Ryan _______________________________________________ Sync-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/sync-dev
